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ing protestants scruple the baptizing of infects , be it enacted by the authority aforesaid , that qvery person in pretended holy orders , or pretending to holy orders , or Preacher , or Teacher , that shall subscribe the aforesaid articles of
religion , except ^ s befo re excepted : and also except part of the 27 th article teaching infant-baptism , and shall take the oatks , and make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid , in manner aforesaid : everv such person shall ensaid ; every such person shall
enjoy all the privileges , benefits , and advantages , which any other dissenting minister asaforesaid , might have or enjoy by virtue of this act . X . And fee H further enacted , by the authority aforesaid , thftf
every teacher or preacher in holy Orders , or pretended holy orders that is , a rainibter , preacher , pjteacher of a congregation tji ^ jt shall take the oaths herein required , and make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid ; and also subscribe such of the aforesaid
articles of the Church of England , as ftre required by this act in manner aforesaid , shall be thenceforth exempted from serving upon any jury , or frojn being chosen or the
appointed to be ^ r office of church . warden , overseer of the poor , or any other parochial or ward office , or other office i $ any hundred , or any shire , city , town , parish , division , or wapentake .
XL And be it further enacted , by the authority aforesaid , that any justice of the peace may , at Uny time hereafter , require any person that goes to atiy meeting
for exercise of religion , to make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid , and also to take the said oatfcs or declaration of - . fidelity , hereinafter mentioned ; in c * iae
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such person sctuple the faking of an oath , and upon the refusal thereof , such justice o £ the peace is hereby required to commit such person to prison , without bail or mainprize , and to certify the name of such person to the next general
or quarter session of the peace , to be held for that county , city , town , part , or division , where such person then resides ; and if such person so committed shall , upon a second tender at the general or quarter sessions , refuse to make and subscribe the declarationafore *
said , such person refusing shall be then and there recorded , and shall jbje taken thenceforth to all intents &jjd purposes , for a popish recu-^ nt convict , and suffer according , Jy , and incur all the penalties and forfeitures of the aforesaid laws *
lill . And whereas , there are certain o ^ Uer persons , dissent efts from the cburjoh of England , who scruple the takiqg of any oatb , be k enacted by tks authority afore * said , that every such per sop shall make a , n 4 subscribe the aforesaid declaration ; and also this
declaration of fidelity following ; I , A . B ^ do sincerely promise and solemnly declare , before , Qq 4 ^ n ^ ifee world * that I will be true and faithful to King WiUiann and Qweeii Mary . And I solemnly profess and d £ p-
clare that I da fyom my h $ fflt 9 abhor , detest , and renq ^ nc < e , p . sjm ^ pious and heretical , that damnable doctrine and position , that Pripc ^ s excommunicated , Qr $ & » prived by the Pope or aoy
authority of the See of Rome , may toe deposed or murdered by thj ^ ir § ub «> jects , or aoy othf ^ r whatsoever . An 4 J do declare that 1 ^ 0 fo reign pri ^ e , person , prelate , ^ atp of potentate , l > atb ,, or ougbt % o&&vq any ppwier » j » fi 34 iAtiw > s »§ Qmn-r
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92 ft T&lemtim Act .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/48/
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